Paddington, a bear in hot water – story structure

Paddington Bear

This year for reading activities within my class, we have been using a resource called StoryBytes, by Hilton Ayrey. With each weekly activity, there is a task that requires students to identify the story structure. It requires students to identify the following:

Setting: Where does the story take place?

Characters: Who are the characters in the story?

Problem: What is the problem in the story?

Feelings: How do the main characters feel about the problem?

Action: What action do the characters take?

Outcome: How did the story end?

Themes: Is their a lesson in the story?

I wanted the students to transfer the skill of identifying a story’s structure within text, to identifying a story’s structure within a television programme. Further developong our skills we viewed the second episode of Paddington, A bear in hot water.